Mine was a “possesive bottle” feeder. The boob she was more relaxed about, but when dad was feeding her when I was at work, hoooo boy. Breast milk or formula in there girl was NOT going to let you have that thing once she got it into her mouth. She would hold the end and jam it into her face so that it was wedged in there. Then she would look at you like, DON”T EVEN TRY IT! Seriously, her little eyes would follow you and if she saw your hand get near her bottle she was not happy. She would grip it tighter. This was like 4-8 months. Now she is serious about her sippy. She has one with a straw and she POUNDS that water. It is hilarious.

My 11 month old son is a physical eater, too. And it’s only amped up as he’s gotten more physically adept. I don’t mind because the look of pure joy that shines on his face when he sees the boob is priceless. He lunges and makes sweet little nom nom noises. He can nurse on his hands and knees, standing up and in downward dog. I’ll wake up in the middle of the night to find that he has raised my shirt and is sitting up nursing! I don’t know when we will ween, it will probably be up to him. Now that he is eating more solids, he definitely doesn’t nurse as often. But I remember well the cluster feedings and marathon nursing sessions from earlier days and wondering if he would ever stop!

I was breastfeeding my 5month old while reading this and I am glad to hear my kid isn’t the only one fighting the one who feeds him. My little guy is definitely a physical eater. He kicks and pushes off the arm rest. He tries to grab my face with his top arm. And his head sweats. With a bottle he is just the opposite; he holds on to it for dear life with both hands.

My peanut is a slapper. She slaps whatever she can reach, usually her bottle, sometimes me. Oh my GOSH it is annoying trying to feed her a bottle when the whole time she is slapping it!

My kids did that when they were waiting for letdown. They’d calm down once they started to get a good mouthful, then start up again while waiting for the next letdown. My first was such a voracious eater that she’d go through 3 letdown cycles each feeding. As soon as she’d finished what the breasts came up with for round 3, she’d calmly pull away from my chest and be done. But, yeah, they POUNDED me on the chest and kicked like crazy while waiting.